A Northrop Grumman business unit has teamed up with Denmark-based Terma in an effort to develop and bring new navigation tools and surveillance radars to the naval market. Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine’s partnership with Terma intends to integrate “near, low level air and surface surveillance capability to our navigation suite, in addition to out-of-the-box compliance […] More

Hamilton Turner, Andrew Meister and Eileen Mercilliott have joined OptioLabs’ management team. Turner, formerly chief operating officer at Sonum Technologies, will serve as director of OptioLabs’ malware research, OptioLabs said Thursday. Meister joins OptioLabs as vice president of engineering after working at AM Consulting and serving as co-founder and VP of Aether Systems, director of engineering […] More

DigitalGlobe has unveiled a new hosted service that works to help software developers build their own Web or mobile applications from the company’s satellite image basemaps. Luke Barrington, senior director of product development at DigitalGlobe, wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday that DigitalGlobe Maps API also provides terrain and OpenStreetMap layers for image context. He said the API is built […] More

Research and Markets predicts that the global satellite-based Earth observation market will achieve a 13.23-percent compound annual growth rate over a five-year period ending 2019. The company said Friday the report points to the growing application base for satellite data leading to the increasing number of launches of Earth observation satellites, which is the key market driver. […] More

The Defense Department’s Better Buying Power program has spurred the adoption of “lowest price-technically acceptable” methods to procure supplies and services across DoD, Alex Rossino writes in a blog post for Deltek. Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, says BBP aims to speed up acquisitions and help the DoD integrate platforms with its information technology infrastructure through “short term procurements with […] More

Symantec CEO Michael Brown believes the Internet of Things brings a “huge opportunity” for the company in its efforts to help protect e-commerce transactions, Economic Times reported Friday. Brown told Economic Times’ TV Mahalingam that Symantec considers endpoint protection as its biggest business. “We protect a billion devices today… from set top boxes, point of […] More

BAE Systems has introduced several cloud-based platforms designed to help businesses based in Canada protect their data infrastructure from potential cyber attacks. The company said Tuesday the Zero Day Prevention offering under its Email Protection Services portfolio aims to protect clients from unknown attacks by screening cloud-based emails for malware and malicious content before they […] More

QTS Realty Trust‘s Information Security and Compliance Forum on Tuesday gathered at least 100 enterprise information technology professionals to discuss current issues and strategies in the field of cybersecurity. The company said Thursday this year’s forum featured keynote speakers Stephen Coty, chief security evangelist at Alert Logic, and Justin Somaini, vice president and chief trust officer of Box. “We’re […] More

Microsoft has introduced an email security offering intended to help government and commercial organizations protect their mailboxes against sophisticated threats. The Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection service works to filter out zero-day threats and malicious links in digital correspondence, according to a June 1 blog post by Shobhit Sahay, technical product manager of Microsoft’s Office […] More

Vernon Bailey joined SAP NS2 — the German conglomerate’s U.S. national security subsidiary — upon SAP‘s acquisition of Sybase in 2010 and now serves as the subsidiary’s vice president of sales. The 27-year information technology veteran oversees marketing and sales functions for SAP NS2’s database and technologies business and also is responsible for customer experience initiatives. In this […] More

A subsidiary of BAE Systems has launched a set of cloud-based offerings intended to help enterprises based in Europe protect networks from potential cyber attacks. The Zero Day Prevention platform from BAE Systems Applied Intelligence aims to provide cybersecurity protection from unknown attacks by screening cloud-based emails for malicious malware before they get into the recipient’s inbox, […] More

Microsoft has developed a cloud security tool intended to help security providers safeguard data stored in the cloud. The Verifiable Confidential Cloud Computing technology works to protect data while an authorized user gains access to the storage system for calculations, Microsoft said May 18. “The cloud provider cannot see the data or the code that the […] More